Remembering and Recommending Chungking Express and Fallen Angels.

Two of some of my favorite foreign movies of all time are Fallen Angels and Chungking Express. Both of these movies were directed by the renowned filmmaker Wong Kar Wai. Both of these movies take place in the city of Hong Kong in the early 90s. I like Fallen Angels (or les Anges Dechus as it was called and released in France) because it has a beautiful cinematography and a very unconventional storyline, even for a Hong Kong flick. Fallen Angels has two stories, one about a killer and his unorthodox relationship with his clean up lady, who literally places all the material in black garbage bags, and the second is about an ex convict who lives with his old father and forces people to buy his services that he renders to them at night, and his romantic, tryst, with a psychotic young lady bent on exacting her revenge on the blondie who took her boyfriend away from her. It is great stuff. Very avante-garde.
Chungking Express was made a year or two before Fallen Angels (and is it's prequel) and it involves a tale of a female drug smuggler and her excursions into her operations in HK or Hong Kong, and the unlikely meet up of her and a cop at a bar, and a hotel room. The second story that more or less intertwines in the movie is the young woman who dreams of moving to California and works in a HK take-out cafeteria style eatery, and her romantic relations with another cop. These movies star big names in Hong Kong cinema and even music  -Tony Leung, Bridgette Lin, Charlie Yeung, Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Karen Mok and last but not least, Faye Wong. These are some of my favorite movies in the world. Long live Hong Kong, Asia and the Philippines!

Some of Mine, Figure[s] Collection.

I got this Nami Ver. Red in the Philippines, Manila, in a shopping center in Caloocan. Authentic.

Figma, Hatsune Miku: Append. Ver.

Space Pirate Ver. Blue

Ame-Comi, Star Sapphire, purchased from

Comic Quest, basement level, Megamall, Mandaluyong, Philippines.

Fraulein Revoltech Vol. 3, Asuka Langley Soryu.

Hope you had fun, viewing some or a few of my figures. I've got Monsieur Bome on my walls, a couple other Fraulein Revoltechs, a couple other Ame-Comis', some old school GI Joe figures (in blister pack, from the 80s), and a Mig-60. Thanks.

A Sunday Pasyal (pashal).

Today, this morning we ate at Denny's Diner. I had the double cheeseburger and orange juice. It was very big, the meat was coming off of the bun, and the meal came with a steak knife. The place was packed, full of Sunday church service people, and young people, and all ethnicities was there, to chow down [on] a cheap glorious meal on a Sunday.
After Denny's we canceled on the John Carter movie and instead went to the Goodwill on San Pablo Ave. and I bought around 5 pairs of pants. I got a pair of Arizona jeans and they are so sick. The "wash" of the jeans is this perfect lighter, but sharp blue. Arizona is really a sick jean and clothing company. Arizona Jean Company is what it's called.
Before we went to the Goodwill, we went to the 99Cents Only store. We bought a lot of stuff. Among them, were body soaps, some of which were Yardley of London, and bubble bath wash, and acne removal, prevention liquid, like Neutrogena but only .99 cents. All that stuff works, for under a buck each. 
That was our day [my mom and mine] of pasyal.

Bon Apetit, a Porkchop!

Food trip, I ordered a pork chop cheese melt at the Hong Kong cafe restaurant in front of Ranch 99, and this is what I got, ahem, a pork chop [cheese melt]. LOL. Why, is it funny? Usually, meat dishes in restaurants give you side orders, like rice, veggies, french fries or whatever.